A video featuring one second from every episode of #TheXFiles! So many memories! I’ve been thinking about something like this ever since I saw the same for #TwinPeaks…
Jun 09, 2019 14:01
Happening right now in Illinois: #XFest19 #XFest2, surprisingly successful! By @[250161418735011:274:This Con Life]
@[300230613978960:844:I Wanna Believe!\: An X-Files Parody Musical] is a reality, and it’s entirely on YouTube for those not living close to Illinois! Enjoy! (I haven’t watched yet but I’ve heard good things from #XFest19 @[250161418735011:274:This Con Life] attendees) So who is up for a synchronized virtual meet-up to watch this? @[177236248979145:274:XFilesNews] @[930414780360852:274:The X-Cast\: An X-Files Podcast] #TheXFiles
Jun 14, 2019 18:38
“To me, their journey is not done.” “I don’t think Chris intended season 11 to be the end.” – Frank Spotnitz on potentially more Mulder and Scully
“I was surprised by seasons 10 and 11. […] I’m not convinced that at least some of that wasn’t going to be twisted yet again if there had been another season.” – on William’s father
“A lot of the things that Chris and I talked about are sort of in conflict now with what happened in the last two seasons. […] I don’t really want to give away what I would do because part of me thinks that I would still have a chance to do it.” – on continuing the mythology
My new must-have goal in #TheXFiles fandom is to know what were Carter & Spotnitz’s original plans for continuing the mythology!
@[177236248979145:274:XFilesNews] has posted online all the panels from @[250161418735011:274:This Con Life] #XFest2 #XFest19, a lot of material her, but Spotnitz’s panel in particular is a must, just to see him balance his justified gratefulness to Carter with his own frustrations with how some things turned out.
Jun 19, 2019 10:27
Confirmed! @[114444205294473:274:Mark Snow] goodness by @[56031953754:274:La-La Land Records]:
June 25th
X Files Season 11 2 cd set
$24.98
Limited edition of 3000 units
NO autographs
X Files Volume 4 still expected for this summer. July perhaps?
Jun 25, 2019 11:23
THE X-FILES – SEASON 11: LIMITED EDITION (2-CD SET)
LLLCD 1470
Music by Mark Snow
Limited Edition of 3000 Units
RETAIL PRICE: $24.98
STARTS SHIPPING JULY 1
Order at www.lalandrecords.com starting 6/25 at 12noon (pst)
See tracklist below
@[56031953754:274:La-La Land Records] #MarkSnow #TheXFiles#soundtrack
@[56031953754:274:La-La Land Records]’ #TheXFiles S11 soundtrack by #MarkSnow has started shipping and should be in your CD player soon! There was not *that* much music that I remember from S11 that sounded interesting — a lot of it was reusing music from S10 and IWTB (the Struggles), the only noticeably interesting episodes for their music were “Familiar” and “Nothing Lasts Forever”. However I was surprised with the S10 soundtrack when it came out, so we will see!
Jul 20, 2019 11:47
50th anniversary of humankind’s biggest achievement so far! A young Mulder was one of the two billion people watching #Apollo11 land on the moon live in 1969, and learnt “something about teamwork” – relevant #TheXFiles episodes are Space, Tempus Fugit/Max and Founder’s Mutation. Congratulations to the 400,000 people involved! Space aficionados can follow the whole #Apollo50th mission “live” here:
The Big Light social network is closing in just a few days. This was on Frank Spotnitz’s website that was launched in the run-up to I Want To Believe. It was flooded by #TheXFiles fans and held some interesting discussions, but quite suddenly it was completely deserted around 2011, as news of an “XF3” film never came. These were the innocent times, when fans still optimistically fantasized what would be next for Mulder & Scully!
Mark Snow’s music! Coming Summer 2019 from @[56031953754:274:La-La Land Records]:
X FILES VOL 4
X FILES SEASON 11
Although Season 11 relied heavily on the soundtracks of IWTB and Season 10, there were some interesting cues, in particular in “Familiar” and “Nothing Lasts Forever”.
Volume 4 of the “original series” music is rumored to be the last one, so I hope it can deliver, with so much material to choose from! I expect it to have at least episodes not yet covered like Duane Barry/Ascension, Apocypha, Never Again or Memento Mori — but also I hope some cues from already covered episodes that still have some great unreleased material, like Conduit, The Erlenmeyer Flask, Talitha Cumi, Paper Hearts, Redux… and more!
Check out the community-compiled list of requests from 150 episodes (!) that I hope La-La Land considered on the website:
#TheXFiles Here are those cut scenes from Talitha Cumi and En Ami showing the Cigarette-Smoking Man water-skiing? “He was a good water-skier your husband, not as good as I was but then that could be said about so many things…”
Apr 10, 2019 11:40
For those wondering what happened to #TheXFiles game on Android: after they released their “case 8” last November, development of new material has been put on hold. Carter mentioned another video game was in development last year, but given how detached he is from video games in general I believe he was referring to this one.
Hi @MadesCharlie Thanks for the question, We're not in a position to comment on #DisneyFoxDeal – However, we can say that development of #xfilesgame is currently on hold until further notice.
Mulder’s office desk is up for sale! By Vancouver’s Back Gallery Project (ie the real Monica Reyes). A piece of history that should go to a good caretaker! And more proof that Carter is really done with the show. Also: Scully’s chair: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/163646852082 #TheXFiles #ebay
I was interested in understanding why this new surge of conspiracism has appeared, knowing that historically, times of tumult and social upheaval tend to lead to a parallel surge in conspiracy thinking. I found some of my answer in our increasingly rigid class structure, one that leaves many people feeling locked into their circumstances and desperate to find someone to blame. I found it in rising disenfranchisement, a feeling many people have that they are shut out of systems of power, pounding furiously at iron doors that will never open to admit them. I found it in the frustratingly opaque US healthcare system, a vanishing social safety net, a political environment that seizes cynically on a renewed distrust of the news media.
– from Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power by Anna Merlan
#TheXFiles IRL: “I thought we dealt with all this in the 1990s? Mulder and Scully proved that aliens were here. Then further evidence came to light that proved they were, in fact, fictional characters in a TV series.” An Oxford lecturer claims that a secret breeding programme to create alien-human hybrids will save humanity from environmental disaster #climatechange
What happens when an author re-writes a different author’s story 20 years later and sends confusing signals about rape (medical or otherwise) at a time of #metoo? You get awkward questions like this one, where WBDavis has to defend his original ideas for the CSM…
“Now just a moment here. I accept that Methuselah got handsy with Hilda in Sabrina, with that context. But I’m not sure that the Smoking Man got handsy with Scully. I think he was devoted to her, and admired her and found the common connection. I found a dinner scene where he confesses his loneliness to her quite human. But if you’re referring to what might have happened in the bedroom, I’m of the opinion that I did nothing wrong in that bedroom.
I mean what are you going to do? Somebody is unconscious, and you want to put them to bed, so you get your housekeeper to come and help put them to bed. That’s all. That’s all I thought ever happened. Smoking Man has many evil habits, but I don’t think that’s one of them.”
Who wants a #LEGO set based on #TheXFiles? The creator of this awesome set, inspired on the episode “EBE”, is looking for *your support* to convince the LEGO Group to produce and sell it as an official LEGO product!
A previous attempt had not been fruitful because LEGO didn’t produce “mature content”, but I’m sure there’s a market for this out there! Otherwise, get to your 3D printers.
Another #TheXFiles#LEGO idea to support – Mulder & Scully and the XF office! Create an account and vote – if it reaches 10,000 votes, LEGO should produce it.
This had actually been submitted last year (DD & GA had taken photos with the figurines) but LEGO had decided no because of mature content. Now they are producing #StrangerThings sets, so it’s just a matter of showing support.
Real-life #TheXFiles: a 1950 simulated germ-warfare attack, one of many that we know of. Remember the pustule bugs in “F. Emasculata” and the smallpox bees in “Zero Sum”?
It’s been over a year since that finale. Has #TheXFiles done its time? These nice essays by Italian fans from @[169182093160805:274:X-Files Blue Book/X-Files Italian Fan Club] give their own view, being also musings about the power of storytelling, about time passing and about societal/moral values changing (I particularly liked the first one by Rita).
* Google Translate can be your friend!
Production hurdles don’t stop X-philes from keeping on dreaming. Here is #thexfiles Virtual Season 12, kicking off with mythology from where My Struggle IV left us, and linking back all the way to season 8 stuff that actually happened!
Wanted to share this for this week’s #TBT – caricatures drawn by Jeff Vlaming of The X-Files writing staff circa 1995.
Left to right: Vince Gilligan, Kim Newton, John Shiban, me and Darin Morgan (in Flukeman guise).
Feb 01, 2019 14:49
During his stay as a staff writer in #TheXFiles season 3 in 1995, Jeff Vlaming filled an entire wall of his office with one alien drawing per episode! Can you identify them all? (last 2 of s3 missing) From his blog: https://vlam-ink.blogspot.com/2011/09/x-files-meets-banksy.html following up on yesterday’s doodle posted by @[324099084726810:274:Frank Spotnitz]
Feb 07, 2019 15:46
So the FOX CEOs who liked Carter and were responsible for getting #thexfiles revival off the ground did not survive the merger with Disney. New CEO Charlie Collier excludes no possibility in the endless stream of reboots and revivals of our time, when asked about X-Files or 24: “One at a time we’ll talk to the creators and see if they have a vision that we can share with the studios. If we do and we can make the economics work, we’d look at them all.” #TCA2019
#TheXFiles was ground-breaking also because it brought cinematic sensibilities to the small screen. A shot of the show made it in this reel for the 100th Anniversary of the American Society of Cinematographers!
Just found out that xfphotos.fredfarm.com is down! It might not mean much in a time of HD captures from the BluRays, but for a very long time this was one of the main screen capture sources for #TheXFiles, ever since the DVDs were a new thing!… (and original ratio 4/3 please, not 16/9!)
It’s official! #Disney owns #FOX and #TheXFiles and #Scully can be a #DisneyPrincess
Mar 22, 2019 7:40
As we reach the one-year anniversary of the end of the “My Struggle” saga and the end of #TheXFiles revival, we present this in-depth criticism of what went wrong with the revival, by our friend Demijan. An unfiltered and unrelentling analysis of a great many aspects of the revival, in particular the mythology, this essay is something that could have only been produced by a big fan of the show, and it is only so negative as the revival is different from what came before.
This page has reached 1000 likes! – I must find a way to celebrate the upcoming 1013 likes… any ideas?
I’ve found my new favourite #TheXFiles tumblr: xfileswithoutpeople! Get your atmospheric cinematography groove on!
For those of you intending to follow #TheXCastLive, which starts tomorrow 9am BST talking #TheXFiles for 24 hours for charity, here is the link to the listening feed: http://mixlr.com/the-x-cast/
Sep 04, 2018 19:53
An excellent resource: a 47 page document listing challenging words and idioms used in #TheXFiles along with their definitions for non-native speakers of English, in chronological order. Found on reddit – credits to Nodir Ataev!
For instance, from “Miracle Man”:
Smorgasbord: a range of open sandwiches and delicacies served as hors d’oeuvres or a buffet – a wide range of something; a variety: the album is a smorgasbord of different musical styles
#TheXFiles25th anniversary: Vancouver in 1993 vs 2018, a photo-journalism article comparing 40+ filming locations then and now, and a guide on where to find them! #TheXFiles25 #TheXFiles
Happy #1013, happy birthday Mr. Carter! Here is a great panel interview (IBG – used to be pay exclusive) with great Anderson-Duchovny interaction, from the remote year 2011 – before the revivals and when people were still asking for a third film! And already Carter didn’t remember some details like what would have been the alternative ending for season 7. Carter says there’s one thing he would change but doesn’t say what: did he change that in #TheXFiles revival? What was it? Friendly aliens twist? M&S breakup? CSM alive? William not Mulder’s?
22 years ago today, Chris Carter created a series and a character that would forever change my life. Frank Black and Millennium were a gift to me as a person and an actor.
All around the world, even to this day, fans still remember and love this series. I want to thank Chris, the entire cast and crew and especially the fans for their support of Millennium.
Oct 30, 2018 1:21
Spooky Empire…
Nov 08, 2018 20:10
Welcome to members #900 and beyond! Keep on philin’! #TheXFiles
Nov 10, 2018 10:23
California fires have claimed much of Paramount Ranch, aka Democratic Hot Springs, where William was born in the season 8 finale!… #TheXFiles
RIP Jordan Lee Williams, aka Agent Craig Willmore, protagonist of #TheXFiles game of 1998 on CD and PS1… Still waiting for the sequel to that awesome game…
Anybody up for bidding some serious money to own the Alien Bounty Hunter’s bee-covered suit, or the pod from Fight the Future, or some icky cancerous body parts from Leonard Betts? #TheXFiles You can also bid on some #TwinPeaks items!
2018 was an important year. It is very likely we saw the very last of #TheXFiles, with a season 11 that had some genuinely good moments, and others…less so. The fandom blossomed in another gasp of activity before dissolving yet again. Also, I made a twenty-year-old dream a reality when I got to visit filming locations in Vancouver! Eat The Corn has followed all these events — and still has a few articles in store for 2019, but little beyond that. Endings indeed.
This is an image from what very well may be the last making of (Implanted Memories: 25 Years of The X-Files), on top of an end scene that best fits a finale in these two nostalgia-heavy revival seasons (The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat): an homage to The X-Files’ predecessor The Twilight Zone, and a self-conscious admission that times have changed since the series was in tune with its time. Goodbye and thank you!
No X-Files fan experience can be complete without a pilgrimage to where the series was shot!
Well, maybe these are strong words. You might not want to know too much about how the show was made, it might lose its magic. If the XF-vibe is not there, don’t blame Vancouver! Truth be told, the cinematographers and set designers had an important role to play, and visiting shooting locations after the fact may be underwhelming.
My travels recently took me to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where The X-Files‘ most memorable period was shot, seasons 1-5, so much so that it returned there for I Want To Believe and seasons 10-11; and where the other Ten Thirteen series were shot too, in particular Millennium. The (amateur) photos below are the result.
Past X-philes have done similar pilgrimages! A shout out to some favourites, that complete this article: TempusFugit; InvisiGoth; Fangirlquest.
If you ever plan to do something similar, here are some tips:
Plan your trip! “X Marks the Spot”, written by the series’ location managers Todd Pittson and Louisa Gradnitzer, will be your Bible (also, look at vintage fan sites X-Town or XF Marks The Spot, or Movie Maps). Placing your locations on Google Maps will help. For this, I am sharing here myX-Files Filming Locations map to you!
Take into account travelling time! Traffic is a big, big issue, and distances that might look like next door will take time. You might end up spending a large part of your day between locations. And so, due to time constraints, honourable highlights that are absent below are the Ascension cable car, the Anasazi quarry, the Paper Clip Strughold mines, or the Patient X Ruskin dam.
Don’t go during the summer! When you think XF you think fog, rain, clouds, that moody atmosphere. In summer you will have sunlight and no rain (that’s very obvious when you watch season 10, unfortunately). And if you’re not lucky you will also have smoke from forest fires, which blows in the area and limits visibility dramatically! Unfortunately this was my case.
Not everything is accessible! The XF crew had privileged access to location to do their work, obviously. Some locations are private properties (Mulder’s father’s house, or the Mulders’ summer cottage). Many locations have restricted access only to people working there (like the Anasazi quarry, or the place where the train car blows up in 731, or the ending to EBE, or many of the docks locations). Some might be restricted because filming is taking place there, again (North Shore Studios of course, and filming often takes place in Riverview Hospital). Obviously, many interiors are completely out of reach. Choose your locations with that knowledge.
Not everything exists anymore! As much as 25 years have passed, and things change. Some places have been renovated and are still themselves, like the mining museum from Paper Clip; some places have just changed owners and look different, like the Washington diner where Skinner is shot in Piper Maru (now a fancy gourmet restaurant), the pub where Ed Jerse and Scully flirt in Never Again (now a well lit bakery-café), or the café where Mulder meets Samantha in Redux (now a photocopy shop); and some places are just gone, like the roadside diner from the end of Eve or the train building Mulder observes the Japanese scientists from in Nisei ! And this will be more and more the case as time passes.
We are reminded of the weight of time that passes as The X-Files celebrates its 25th anniversary. A quarter century has flown by and the world is certainly a different place from what it was, in so many aspects. The X-Files has definitely hit that transition point between “recent and fesh but not quite new” to “something from a generation ago and just fondly remembered”. I wish I could say that at least, paraphrasing Casablanca, “we’ll always have Vancouver” to “remember how it all was“; but Vancouver too is changing, as do all things. Still, there’s a lot still there!
So see for yourself below, 1993-1998 versus 2018. The Vancouver area is separated in sections — The city, The suburbs, The docks, The woods — and do read the captions.
RIP Art Bell, landmark paranormal/conspiracy-themed radio show host of “@[105212777348:274:Coast to Coast AM]” that ran over 1988-2007. Remember when Frank Black himself was invited on Art Bell’s show with a cameo by Bell himself in the #Millennium season 3 episode “Collateral Damage”? A few months later in 1999 Chris Carter was invited as well. #ArtBell #TheXFiles
“Arguably, dark, conspiracy-ridden dramas fulfil an important function. They’re a safe space for our wildest speculations, a decompression chamber for our paranoia. The X-Files is an interesting example. If any show epitomised an era during which political scientist Francis Fukuyama was able to posit “the end of history” without being laughed out of academia, it’s Mulder and Scully’s wild goose chase. The 90s now look like a mere pause for breath before the real business of humanity (wars, vicious ideological clashes, terrorism, you know the drill) got underway again. Imagine, in 2018, having enough available mental bandwidth to obsess about the possible existence of aliens? Such decadence.” #TheXFiles #Homeland #DeepState #HouseOfCards
“Von T”, the last of Von Braun’s rocket team, brought to the USA after World War II with Operation Paperclip, has died. He had been working for or helping #NASA continuously since the 1950s.
As Mulder and Byers said in 3X02: Paper Clip: “Our deal with the devil. The U.S. government provided safe haven for certain Nazi war criminals in exchange for their scientific knowledge. […] Wernher von Braun, designer of the V-2 rockets that leveled London, may be the most notorious, but Victor Klemper certainly takes the prize for the most… evil Nazi to escape the Nuremburg trials. […] Together with Von Braun, Klemper helped us win the space race. Using his scientific data on the effects of high-altitude flying, we were able to put astronauts on the moon before the Soviets.” #TheXFiles
On the 20th anniversary of the release of #TheXFiles “Fight the Future” that he co-wrote! I hope somebody asks him what he thought of the revival seasons.
Today, #TheXFiles Movie a.k.a. “Fight the Future” turns 20! Already! Return to the nineties with this music video for Filter’s “One”, featuring the Cigarette-Smoking Man and Agent Doggett’s brother! This song was part of the film’s Album CD, a rather unlikely collection of songs that accompanied the film’s release.
Some nice articles for #TheXFiles: Fight the Future’s 20th anniversary! Much of this is pulled off the “Making Of” book. Reading that makes you realize what an amazing gamble that movie was, how everything happened on the nick of time and how often things could have collapsed — making a big-budget movie that inserts itself in a complex mythology pre-planned one and a half seasons in advance — and how well it turned out! Proof that TenThirteen could work well under pressure!
One of those amazing bonuses in the apex of #TheXFiles craze: at the end of the FTF album, Chris Carter, sounding like a secret informant reading a classified document, reveals everything about the mythology! (That is, the mythology up until that point…) #XFFTF20 Recording, analysis and commentary here:
Now it’s official- see you on Thursday, July 19th at 1pm – #SDCC #TheXFiles 👽http://sched.co/FQmu
Jul 16, 2018 11:11
New Chris Carter interview: definitely interested to do season 12 but “it’s up in the air, in terms of Gillian’s interest in doing the show […] For me, #TheXFiles is Mulder and Scully, so even though we did the show without David, without Mulder, for a time, I always felt like her science was the centre of the show. In the end, it is a science show, and it makes it all-important.” Any new projects for you on the horizon? “No, nothing right now.”
NEW EPISODE!
Darren Mooney hosts a special interview with comic writing legend Stefan Petrucha about his time writing #TheXFiles Topps comics run in the 1990’s.
Another anniversary: today marks 10 years since #TheXFiles #IWantToBelieve was released! A movie with big flaws in many levels but also with a lot of low-key qualities more typical of Chris Carter’s #Millennium. Certainly more alike to the show than much of the revival! So many years later, it is still odd to be thinking of this movie in the middle of the summer… #IWTB #XFIWTB10
But here is some great @[114444205294473:274:Mark Snow] music:
Jul 27, 2018 14:32
#TheXFiles “Case Files” comics continue! — however editor D.J.Tipton confirms that they will stop after their 4th issue, due next month. “Actually, no plans for future comics at this time. Hopefully, there will be renewed interest with the TPB or after allowing it to rest for a spell.” Sales have been declining for a while. Revival fatigue, merchandising over-saturation?
In stores tomorrow, The X-Files Case Files: Hoot Goes There? #1 (of 2) by Joe Lansdale, Keith Lansdale, Silvia Califano, Valentina Pinto and covers by Catherine Nodet, J.J. Lendl Art Studio and Charles Paul Wilson III. This will probably be our last X-Files miniseries for a while, so enjoy while you can!
Jul 31, 2018 14:12
(Real-life #TheXFiles) Secrets from the 1930s-1940s are still being uncovered today! At the request of a researcher, “This is the first time that an official document showing the real names of almost all members of Unit 731 has been disclosed” — along with Shiro Ishii, who was granted immunity in the USA (inspiration for Shiro Zama/Ishimaru in the Nisei/731 episodes).
#TheXFiles S12? “It’s my job to figure out how we go forward without her in an interesting way […] but I haven’t had time to think about that yet.”
On S11: “There was a former CIA chief who said there are three things that have the greatest possibility of ending mankind and the world as we know it. And that’s nuclear holocaust, global warming and a biological contagion or bioweapon. I think you saw all those things in the show this year.”
Referenced by Mulder in #TheXFiles “Little Green Men”, the Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977, over forty years later, are *still* communicating with NASA! A wonder of technology!
